Language Acquisition Research Tools

A list of papers that you should probably read before you try to create artificial agents that can learn a language or a concept.

Lessons for learning a foreign language. Formerly a wiki, now a static site built with Hugo.

Depth-bounded grammar Induction Model with Inside-sampling

This project was originally my term project for a computational linguistics course at Pitt. It was turned into a research project later and I am working on publishing the work.

Guidelines, documentation, instructions, issues, etc.

Code for the paper "Sampling strategies in Siamese Networks for unsupervised speech representation learning" Interspeech 2018

"Flashcardify-GPT is a Python script that uses the OpenAI GPT-3.5 language model to generate language flashcards for learners. With Flashcardify-GPT, users can generate customized decks of flashcards with common phrases and vocabulary.

A curated repository of resources for Linguistics, the scientific study of language

Code for the paper "Deep neural networks and humans both benefit from compositional structure"

Research code for exploring co-occurrence structure of nouns in child-directed speech

This project was created for the UofTHacks 12 Hackathon and was the winner of Best University of Toronto Hack.

Pipeline for the ACQDIV Corpus Database

A replication of an experiment by Reali and Christiansen (2005) disputing the basic assumptions of Chomsky's Poverty of Stimulus theory.

Code and material for the paper "Beyond the Self: Using Grounded Affordances to Interpret and Describe Others' Actions" (doi: 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2882140)

Memorizing words or phrases

This repository consists of the raw data and R scripts of an investigation on the age of acquisition effects. Piecewise regression models have been fitted in this study.

the script used for the morphological analysis of the Chroma corpus